Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...
...long as Alexander has an arsenal of information at her fingertips, her prose style is swift and pleasing. She handles a story well, and her melodramatic style suits this story in particular. Once Jean Harris begins to find her clothes slashed to pieces and splashed with Mercurochrome and begins to collect her rival's homemade "Super-Doc" badges and shred them into he backyard pool. Alexander is in her element...
...first chapters of the book, however, defeat her. She overwrites, trying to dramatize essentially unexciting background information. We find ourselves mired in such phrases as "that she could embrace his flaws was in the fabric of her passion." A best friend of Jean Harris's, elsewhere sympathetically portrayed, has this stereotype forced upon her. "Ever after, she used the same phrase...'Instant take!' she would exult, tossing back her handsome white-blond head and whinnying like the very expensive palomino pony she much resembles." Alexander's efforts to push this initial descriptive segment of the book to artistic heights falls...
...only $427 a year out of the country when they travel for pleasure. The penalty for being caught with more: confiscation of the money plus a maximum fine of five times that amount. Complicating matters, personal credit cards issued in France may no longer be used abroad. Said Jean-François Deniau, who was Foreign Trade Minister under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "We are condemned to spend our vacations in the countryside with Grandmother." Particularly ironic was the fact that shortly after his election, Mitterrand fulfilled a campaign promise by adding a fifth week...
...spring again. And look what the Easter bunny has brought all the way from France: Daddy's illegitimate son. Product of a mad moment a decade ago, little Jean-Claude arrives wearing a heavy coat of wistfulness atop his natural Gallic charm. His mother, you see, has died of Segal's syndrome (named after the author of Love Story, in whose calculating and sentimental mind this new imposition first arose), and all that stands between the lad and orphanhood is Bob Beckwith's willingness to do the decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept...